You've seen this:<br><br>http://www.wired.com/news/mac/0,2125,51926,00.html<br><br><br>They claim that even with broadband, an 800Mhz Mac takes 10 seconds to load Apple.com. Really? Is this a shortcoming of the new iMacs specifically?<br><br>I ask because with cable it takes around 7 seconds, with my 500Mhz G3 Snow iMac.<br><br>Am I alone in this, or is it a G4 issue?<br><br>

Too many variables involved - unfair test - under 4 seconds on 8600/G4/400/IE5/"0" cache/cablemodem - by later tonight, that could jump to 10 seconds.<br><br>May as well argue the MHz factor - NOT!<br><br>[color:red]Alec</font color=red>

It's a rather silly article with a misleading headline that leads you to believe the issue is iMac-specific, when the article simply discusses the performance shortcomings of Mac OS X.<br><br>These shortcomings can't be denied (unfortunately). As I heard a PC user saying recently, "I can go out and buy the cheapest current PC on the market and run Windows XP perfectly but the cheapest Mac on the market runs Mac OS X lethargically." An unfortunate truism and one that isn't helped by the fact that Macs generally aren't processor-upradable, but you still can't run Mac OS X on that PC so he's not really better off, if you ask me. ;)<br><br>I look forward to a year or so from now when the hardware is fast enough and the OS is refined enough that this argument will no longer have any significance, but until then...<br><br>

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